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Many undergraduate and graduate level students have not engaged with Wikipedia as editors, unless it is a requirement of a course. However, getting these students to engage with Wikipedia as editors more frequently is a common goal among Wikipedians. A potential solution to engaging these students is providing them with service/volunteer credit through their institution. For example, students in fraternities or sororities have to complete mandatory service hours to remain in the organization. At West Virginia University, we are allowing students to edit Wikipedia articles for approved service hours. Similarly, graduate students have been editing Wikipedia for service hours required through dissertation fellowships. By engaging universities to provide Wikipedia as an approved service option, students can be incentivized to contribute. In addition, if these students are tasked with writing articles about women, a large impact could be made on the gender gap on Wikipedia.

One of our main activities at Wiki Learning Tec de Monterrey is with "servicio social" All Mexican undergraduate students are required to do a number of community service hours in order to graduate. A lot of our really best work comes from these students as they self-select this option (rather than being required in a course). I will note that for this to succeed, you need at least one person on campus to support students doing this option and constantly cheerlead it with administration. It cannot work with intermittent support. Thelmadatter (talk) 15:52, 2 January 2017 (UTC)